avoiding the heffalump trap
the economist - after the storm; how to make the best of recovery (october3-9, 2009)
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03/11/2014, 15:45
... left their village in Thampalagama, an area in the east more loosely controlled by the LTTE, for a holiday with a brother living there But their travel passes were lost and without these the Tigers ... of the 220,000 people there need shifting The government says 67,000 can go to their home areas in the east and to other places outside the LTTE’s heartland, like Jaffna and Mannar—even if they ... Back on the catwalk American bank bosses Clearing out the corner office Economics focus The dog that didn't bark Science & Technology Palaeontology and conservation Avoiding the heffalump trap Middle...
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Tài liệu Nghệ thuật xếp hình Nhật Bản: dragon in the water doc
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17/01/2014, 04:20
... of the head, as you pull out the layers and bring them down The head will not lie flat 22 The effect should be something like this, then valley fold the tip of the nose over twice to finish the ... behind the neck 20 Now there is a double layer at the top of the head reach in and bring out the doubled layer on each side of the head, one side at a time Be careful not to tear the paper at the ... head 23 Crimp the legs in to make the feet Pleat fold the wings on both sides Fold the entire back of the body inwards to thin the tail 24 Reverse fold the tail up 25 Reverse fold the tail down...
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The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories pptx
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06/03/2014, 13:20
... over the pond, washing up to the Boy’s feet on the crest of the dam, and swaying the bronze-green grasses about the house on the little island Though, without a doubt, all the other citizens of the ... him.” “Then, when one of them dies so dreadfully, right there before their eyes,” said the Boy, “I 93suppose the others skin out and let the broken dam go! They must be scared to death themselves!” ... into the trap An’ that’s the end of him But other beaver’ll come along an’ take the sapling, all the same!” “You spoke of the ways the Indians had, of cleaning out the whole family,” suggested the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Aplysia temptin ) the ‘glue’ in the water-borne attractin pheromone complex pdf
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16/03/2014, 05:20
... Northern blot analysis (Fig 7) indicated these other isoforms may be expressed in other Aplysia tissues, particularly in the ovotestis, central nervous system, and buccal muscle; the sizes of the ... Whereas the alignment with 1EMN gave good matching of the cysteine residues Cys57 and Cys77, and was consistent with the bond between these residues being the same as that in the template, the bond ... (Cys18Cys103) was then specified, and the model was minimized with the Tripos force field with no charges, and then with the Amber02 field and Gasteiger charges The optimization used the Powell method...
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EVALUATION OF HEALTH RISKS IN THE WASTEWATER RECLAMATION IN THE ABUKUMA WATERSHED, JAPAN
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05/09/2013, 09:08
... death at the age of a+i and YLDi is the YLD during i years The DALY lost by the liver cancer for the population is obtained by summing up the products of four valuables of the cancer risk, the relative ... health risks by the DALY What is DALY? The Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY) is the sum of the Years of Life Lost (YLL) and the Years Lived with a Disability (YLD) The YLL indicating the lifetime ... When the secondary effluent without disinfection in the wastewater treatment is reclaimed, the THMs production capacity in the reclaimed wastewater is 333.0 µg/L (Table 1) On the other hand, if the...
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Water Pollution Characterization by Pathogenic Indicators in Water Runoff in the Downtown of Hanoi, Vietnam
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05/09/2013, 10:15
... within the downtown of Hanoi as well as to lakes and rivers, because the drainage capacity was designed for the less-developed condition of old Hanoi It means that most of the outfalls from the ... wet weather condition These results indicate the range of variation in the quality of surface runoff which makes urban surface runoff quality control more difficult Besides washoff from the surface, ... mitigate the inundation impacts to human health ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The current study is partially performed with the financial support from the 21st Century Center of Excellence program on the “Center...
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Protecting water resources from pollution in the Lake Badovc
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05/09/2013, 16:11
... hydrologic models The first step for creating the basin model is the processing the terrain data The resulting data sets are used as spatial database for the study The basin delineation was further processed ... the values of evaporation needed for the hydrologic modelling the same considerations apply as in the modelling of the catchment of the Lake Badovc The monthly values of evaporation used in the ... day-visitors during the summer months There is no piped water supply in the Mramor area or elsewhere in the catchment area Around 80 % of the buildings have private wells, and the others receive their water...
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Tài liệu Water environmental conservation for improved lihelihood in the Mekong delta, Vietnam doc
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09/12/2013, 22:15
... problems The beginning of the rainy season is the problematic period The main concern in the village level was the water quality, especially, the water supply for domestic usage For the interviewed ... with flood The objective should always be the people The problem and solution should be formulated by citizens, of course, the local people themselves is the most important actor in the water ... crop (Summer - Autumn) or He Thu crop and Mua crop The different in the rice yields in the wet and the dry seasons and the seasonal effects to the livelihood is presented in table Figure 3: Cropping...
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Tài liệu Water quality management for irrigation in the mekong river delta, Vietnam doc
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09/12/2013, 22:15
... the amplitude of tides in the East Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, the slope of the river bed, the wind velocity and direction and the depth of the estuary Salt water intrudes the inland from the ... the along the river and canal banks, resulting a high concentration of human pollutants along the water bodies in the Delta Fig.1: The Mekong River Basin and Land forms of the MD in Vietnam The ... by local farmers Wet season: The wet season in the MD starts with the early rainfalls in May At the onset of the wet season the rain water induced surface runoff in the river and canals is heavily...
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Tài liệu An overview of the drinking water supply situation in the Mekong river delta, Vietnam pdf
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20/12/2013, 19:15
... runoff, the tides and the depth of bars in the sea in front of the estuaries Otherwise, in early rainy season, nearly 1,6 million hectares of the delta are infected by the acidity water due to the ... The low discharge of river water also leads to the salinity intrusion and it becomes the major water use problem in the coastal lands of the delta Saline encroachment effects almost half of the ... season In the months of the wet season, from May to October, the river discharges 2/3 the total annual flow The rest amount of river flow is distributed in months, from November to May, of the dry...
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Tài liệu Conditions of the surface water and ground water resources in the rural area of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam pptx
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16/01/2014, 17:20
... and people The canal system is connected to the open sea In An Binh the canals are influenced by the tidal regime of the South Chinese Sea Here, the tidal amplitude is approx 1.5 m The study site ... following the Vietnamese standards for ground water TCVN 5944 –1995 (see table 3) The results of the analyses of the surface water samples were compared to the Vietnamese standards for the use ... differences as well The surface water at the study sites An Binh and Hoa An are influenced by leachate water from the irrigation ditches of the rice fields At both study sites the values for the pH, BOD,...
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Tài liệu Sustainable water management for rural development in the Mekong river delta, Vietnam pptx
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16/01/2014, 17:20
... and the MD map There are three water quality problems and two water quantity problems that are the principal limit factors of agricultural production in the Delta (i) The salinity intrusion: There ... threatening seriously the public health and socio-economic development (iv) The shortage of fresh water: In the dry season, the average discharge of the Mekong river is lower then 2,500 m3/s down ... throughout the MD coastal provinces (v) The floods: Discharge of the Mekong river during the wet season averages of 39,000 m3/sec About 1,2 - 1,9 million of hectares of the southwestern part of the...
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Tài liệu Water environmental governance in the Mekong delta, Vietnam ppt
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16/01/2014, 17:20
... combined with the inland high rainfall and the effects of high tide from the sea result in thousands hectares of land are inundated, mainly the Northern parts of the MD known as the Long Xuyen ... Long Xuyen Quadrangle and the Plain of Reeds Along the 600 kmcoast, the sea tide strongly influences the water quality due to the sea water intrusion In the dry season, all the coastal lands are ... water shortage There is a very big difference in discharge between the wet season and the dry season In months of the dry season, the river discharges one-third of the total annual flow The low discharge...
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Tài liệu Environmental impacts of petroleum production: Fate of inorganic and organic chemicals in produced water from the Osage-Skiatook Petroleum Environmental Research sites, Osage County, Oklahoma doc
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14/02/2014, 03:20
... slope from the active tank battery, the injection well/pit, and the old tank battery to the lake edge Two small creeks cross the northern and southern parts of the site The upper part of the site ... water to the local communities and is a major recreational fishery (Figs and 2) The sites are located in the Central Oklahoma platform in the southeastern part of the Osage Reservation in northeastern ... were obtained from most of the other wells located on the salt scarred, but ‘remediated’ area below the brine pit All the wells located in the salt-scarred area below the brine pit, especially...
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Báo cáo " Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Huong River basin and adaptation measures " pptx
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05/03/2014, 16:20
... with respect to the protection and the use of coastal resources and environment for the sustainable development of the coastal zone [2] The ICZM strategy document was promulgated at the national ... aquaculture Impacts on the coastal zone Changes in the flow regime will affect the itinerary of fishing boats and other ships and fish migration/spawning routes Changes in the natural environment ... to changes of biodiversity, the behavior of fauna and flora and change of their genetic diversity The coastal zone accounts for 30% of the area and more than 30% of the human population of Thua...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Starch-binding domains in the CBM45 family – low-affinity domains from glucan, water dikinase and a-amylase involved in plastidial starch metabolism pptx
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06/03/2014, 00:21
... b-cyclodextrin The top panel depicts the raw heat response for each b-cyclodextrin injection, and the bottom panel depicts the binding isotherm; open circles represent the integrated binding heat of the ... pH 8.0 The full black line, grey line and broken black line are the thermograms of the first, second and third scans, respectively, at a rate of °CÆmin)1 AtAMY3 was expressed as either the full-length ... with the values obtained for the AtPWD CBM20 (Table 1) [20] The related function of the catalytic modules in AtPWD and StGWD is thus matched by a similar range of affinity of their SBDs, despite the...
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Water Issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Challenges and Opportunities doc
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06/03/2014, 16:20
... sources and their watersheds.37 Other key tenets of the Water Code include the user pays principle, the polluter pays Water Issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo principle, the precautionary ... in the tropical savanna environment of Katanga and the Kasaï plateau in the centre and south of the country does a prolonged dry season exist, rendering these areas prone to drought spells.10 The ... Within the DRC, the Congo basin encompasses over 20 major tributaries comprising four main sub-catchments: (i) the Lualaba/ Tanganyika, (ii) the Kwa-Kasaï, (iii) the Oubangui and (iv) the main...
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Visitor Profiles, Economic Impacts and Recreational Aesthetic Values Associated with Eight Priority Florida Springs Located in the St. Johns River Water Management District pot
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08/03/2014, 08:20
... Springs, which has a large theme park associated with the natural springs environment, accounted for 94% of the total economic impact to the region, while the remainder of the springs contributed ... stimulated by the availability of the spring(s) in their county This is addressed in the following chapters where the economic impact for all springs specific to this study are addressed The reader ... than other data on attendance At the point of contact (i.e., researcher to the U.S Forest Service), the most recent annual data were either 2002 or 2003 It will make little difference which of the...
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Water Management in the Netherlands pptx
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08/03/2014, 14:20
... Management in the Netherlands | | Rijkswaterstaat Preface Introduction The development of water management in the Netherlands The history of the formation of the Netherlands The history of ... mostly in the southwest of the Netherlands In the east and south the coarse and fine sand deposits from the ice ages still occur on the surface Here we also find the hilly areas of the Veluwe, the ... and that there is always 25 m3/s left for the Neder-Rijn The remainder goes to the sea through the Waal Water Management in the Netherlands | 27 Detail of the subsystem of the Meuse and the canals...
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